The Chronically Leaking Appliance Rule: How It Works (Part II) The Chronically Leaking Appliance Rule requires you to calculate a new type of leak rate every time you add refrigerant to an HVACR appliance with a full charge size of 50 or more pounds of a regulated refrigerant. You’ve always had to calculate either the rolling average leak rate or the annualized leak rate after adding refrigerant, in order to determine whether you’ve exceeded the leak repair threshold in the regulations. Now you also have to calculate your calendar year leak rate to see whether you trigger the mandatory reporting of an appliance as “chronically leaking.” May 10, 2024 By Keilly Witman Federal Regulations AIM Act, EPA, Section 608 0 0 Comment Read More »
The Chronically Leaking Appliance Rule - Why is it so scary? (Part 1) What is this Chronically Leaking Appliance Rule? The best answer to that question is to paraphrase a quote from the movie ‘Armageddon’ that applies equally to the end of the world and this Rule: “The scariest thing imaginable. That's all you gotta say, scariest thing imaginable.” March 15, 2024 By Keilly Witman Federal Regulations AIM Act, EPA, Section 608 0 0 Comment Read More »